Tomato 4/6 |
Hair Extensions (2008) |
"No amount of absurdity -- and this film delivers plenty -- can clip the essential enjoyments of Sion Sono’s hair-horror flick, about haunted extensions that strangle their style-obsessed victims to death." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
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Hair Show (2004) |
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Ben Walters |
Tomato 3/6 |
Hairspray (2007) |
"The vanity is difficult to ignore, but amazingly, the younger performers manage to do exactly that." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 1/6 |
Halloween (2007) |
"As if spooked by the long shadow of suburban killer Michael Myers, the director has all but dropped his organic camera style, resulting in exactly the kind of bland, scareless remake the fans were fearing." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 3/5 |
Halloween II (2009) |
"Zombie remains committed to showing how violence lingers with, and perverts, all who are touched by it, yet his carnivalesque approach often undercuts his very real empathy." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 2/6 |
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"Bafflingly, this poorly executed, undercooked comedy was the big winner at Sundance this year." |
Hank Sartin |
Splat 2/6 |
Hancock (2008) |
"Can someone explain how this high-concept dud nabbed a coveted Fourth of July opening?" |
Ben Kenigsberg |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Hand of Fatima (2009) |
"Like so many before her, Augusta Palmer treats her hosts with overstated reverence, which is a shame: Somewhere in this scenario lies a very funny, very strange indie comedy." |
Jay Ruttenberg |
Splat 1/6 |
The Hangover (2009) |
"You’ll laugh three or four times and probably won’t remember why." |
Ben Kenigsberg |
Tomato 5/6 |
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) |
"Hannah is the New York of competitive living and, as such, it’s as true a city portrait as they come." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 1/5 |
Hannah Free (2009) |
"Gray-haired Gless grouches with embarrassing abandon while chatting with the young ghost of her soulmate and befriending a mysterious girl (Jackson)." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 4/6 |
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) |
"[Actor] Gerwig [turns] her terminally anxious character into a poster girl for an entire subset of young women on the verge. Every generation gets the Darling they deserve. We now have ours." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/6 |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"Thomas Harris is now hoodwinked by his creation’s faux pedigree. He’s scripted him a ridiculously Eurotrashy upbringing, one so silly, it’ll remind you of Dr. Evil's memory-tripping: “Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons..."" |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
The Happening (2008) |
"If God made the aliens go away in Signs, can true love hold back the toxic winds? More to the point, can anyone find out without laughing?" |
Ben Kenigsberg |
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Happily Ever After (2005) |
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Splat 1/6 |
Happily N'Ever After (2007) |
"You expect a certain amount of sugar and snark in a modern children’s film, but this tossed-off retelling reeks of folks just out to make a cheap buck." |
David Fear |
Tomato 65/100 |
Happiness of the Katakuris (2002) |
"Aggressively uneven and frequently humdrum, it also reaches cheerfully ludicrous heights to which few films even aspire." |
Mike D'Angelo |
- |
Happy Endings (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Dave Calhoun |
Splat 3/6 |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"Awkward but graceful, derivative but daring, Happy Feet is, indeed, a flightless bird in the best and worst sense." |
Stephen Garrett |
Splat 46/100 |
Happy Times (2002) |
"A mawkish, implausible platonic romance that makes Chaplin's City Lights seem dispassionate by comparison." |
Mike D'Angelo |
Tomato 5/6 |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"We take Mike Leigh’s gifts for granted, knowing the collaborative nature of his filmmaking will inevitably produce something brimming with humanity. Yet what the director and cast do with this character study is miraculous." |
David Fear |
Tomato 4/6 |
Hard Drivers (1960) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Fear |
Tomato 4/5 |
Harmony and Me (2009) |
"Harmony is a finely tuned comedy, complete with precisely scripted jokes and comic set pieces that swerve toward the playfully perverse." |
Karina Longworth |
Splat 3/6 |
Harold (2008) |
"Aside from a few smart tweaks, the film doesn’t subvert the genre but rather falls afoul of it." |
Anna King |
Tomato 57/100 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
"Once again, Chris Columbus stays out of J.K. Rowling's way, sticking to the text and hitting each narrative beat cleanly and vigorously." |
Mike D'Angelo |
Splat 2/5 |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"Radcliffe, in particular, comes off bored and distant, more hitting the marks than baring the soul." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 3/6 |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"Brit TV helmer David Yates doesn’t shy away from the inky notes or the narrative’s sheer length, but he also seems to know where his bread is buttered." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 4/6 |
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008) |
"Folks who don't have any inkling what an I formation is will still find themselves sucked into the film's vortex." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/6 |
Hatchet (2007) |
"Anyone feeding into this nostalgia is yearning for a kind of warm and fuzzy horror that’s wholly irrelevant today." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
Hats Off (2008) |
"It doesn’t take long for Mimi Weddell’s elegant aura to crumble, disarmingly, in this documentary about the 93-year-old actor who once played Stanford’s grandmother on Sex and the City." |
Gia Kourlas |
Splat 2/6 |
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) |
"Cornwell delivers shock-cut scares with metronomic regularity; all you can do is sit numbly, waiting for the next pummeling." |
Hank Sartin |
Splat 2/6 |
The Hawk Is Dying (2007) |
"For performing half this film with a predatory bird perched and flapping angrily on his arm, Paul Giamatti deserves some sort of award." |
Tom Beer |
Tomato 3/6 |
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) |
"A strange appeal exists in watching these white-bread Baltimore stories play out predictably." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
- |
Head in the Clouds (2004) |
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Derek Adams |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Headless Woman (2009) |
"An astounding portrait of a person entirely out of sync with her own existence." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 3/6 |
Heartbeat Detector (2008) |
"Where Michael Clayton assumed the viewers’ utter naïveté regarding corporate malfeasance, Heartbeat Detector’s corrosive look at business culture rests on too overdetermined -- and at times outlandish -- a premise." |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 1/6 |
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) |
"The original's premise has been stripped of anything to do with upward mobility, and except for one shot involving a Prince Albert, the Farrellys' signature shock humor is largely absent." |
David Fear |
Tomato 69/100 |
Heaven (2002) |
"Far more successful, if considerably less ambitious, than last year's Kubrick-meets-Spielberg exercise." |
Mike D'Angelo |
- |
Heights (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Dave Calhoun |
Tomato 4/6 |
Hell Drivers (1957) |
"This is the stuff that B-movie dreams are made of, and Hell Drivers does its damnedest to deliver bottom-of-the-bill bliss." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/6 |
Hell Ride (2008) |
"Like Grindhouse, it assumes that the mere sight of men with muscle vehicles accompanied by a retro-twangy soundtrack equals instant euphoria." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
- |
Hellbent (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Trevor Johnston |
Tomato 3/6 |
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) |
"Runs heavy on showy effects: all the goo that Del Toro’s Oscar prestige can buy. And yet, Ron Perlman’s growly, Johnny Lunchpail characterization of the antihero -- the spawn of Nazi experiments -- remains redeeming." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 4/6 |
Helvetica (2007) |
"Hustwit’s talking heads, an endearingly geeky bunch, weigh in on the pros and cons of such ubiquity. Cage match! Not that kind of film." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 1/6 |
Henry Poole Is Here (2008) |
"Why develop character when you’ve got stylish images and music full of weepy uplift?" |
Stephen Garrett |
Tomato 4/6 |
Herb & Dorothy (2009) |
"Sasaki’s documentary really shines when she gives center stage to the grateful artists whom they helped nurture." |
Maitland McDonagh |
- |
Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/5 |
The Heretics (2009) |
"Considering we have yet to see a female President or pass the ERA, its message feels crucial -- even if we gals would like to think we’ve bridged the gender gap." |
Raven Snook |
Tomato 4/6 |
Hermanas (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Stephen Garrett |
Splat 2/6 |
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) |
"You hardly watch a Disney musical expecting Lars von Trier, but still, this is conservative stuff." |
Anna King |
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